Essay On Black Like Me

Who wants to play a game of “Would You Rather?” For this question, let's bring it back to the mid. 1900s when blacks had few rights and racism was at its peak. Would you rather have had black skin, or white skin? Seems obvious right? Well shockingly, John Howard Griffin decided to temporarily change his skin color from white to black, to experience what life was like for a black person during this time. Hello classmates, it is David Stedt, and today we will be discussing the autobiography I chose for this project, Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin.
The autobiography Black Like Me is written as a journal from John Howard Griffin’s point of view. The story starts in Mansfield, Texas in year 1959, when dark skinned people were segregated

I would recommend this book to all people with an age over ten, only because of the intensity and the language. One reason why I would recommend this book is because it makes you thankful for the way the United States of America is today. Fortunately, the inhumane mistreatment of dark skinned people is far behind us, and for decades now, blacks have been given the same opportunities as whites. I would also recommend this because it teaches history in the United States of America. I did not realize how bad the racial segregation was in the 1950s. Through this book I learned more about what my pediatrician experienced. She is a black woman from the South and when she was young she was treated differently because of her skin tone. One final reason why I would recommend this book is because John Howard Griffin’s bravery fascinated me. He had the guts to be verbally abused, and disenfranchised to find out how black felt during in the late 1950s. I would never have the fearlessness to something like this. I find this bravery similar to Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr.’s. I also learned quite a bit from this book. One thing that I learned was that a great deal of jobs were only allowed for whites, as the main character John couldn’t find any jobs although he had a college degree. Another fact I learned was that during this time period, whites thought that the blacker the person, the more violent they were. Of course